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While Americans were celebrating July 4th weekend with fireworks and barbeque, BritBox and the BBC were getting into a spot of murder, and Agatha Christie murder at that. The new co-production, Murder Is Easy, was initially announced in February 2023 as the latest in the lineup of BritBox's
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Co-commissioned by the BBC and BritBox International, Beyond Paradise is the second super successful spinoff of a long-running, already-popular mystery brand, Death In Paradise. The first success story, Sister Boniface Mysteries (a spinoff of Father Brown), recently announced filming had commenced on Season 3. Now filming has also commenced on
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Sister Boniface is heading back to the well-named Great Slaughter in the Cotswolds to solve more mysteries. U.S. streaming service BritBox has confirmed BBC Studios and UKTV are reteaming to produce a third season of the popular Father Brown spinoff, Sister Boniface Mysteries. Not only is the show returning
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Sir Lenny Henry's Three Little Birds is one of BritBox's most anticipated imports from the BBC heading this way in 2023. The actor doesn't star in it, however; he wrote it. It's his first TV drama series, based on the story of
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As most assumed, Time will be returning to BritBox for its second season. The series was initially planned as a limited three-episode series set inside a men's prison, starring Sean Bean as an inmate struggling to survive and Stephen Graham as the correctional officer trying to stay on
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Like many series that premiered in the glut of 2020-2021, Grace was initially overlooked by American audiences when it first arrived. The series, starring John Simm (Life on Mars) as DSI Roy Grace, was based on the Roy Grace books written by novelist Peter James, with Russell Lewis — the man
The Bay
ITV's The Bay didn't have the most promising start in 2019. Though the police procedural series, which began with Morven Christie (Grantchester) in the lead role as DS (later DC) Lisa Armstrong, did decent numbers in the U.K. when it debuted and was renewed quickly,
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Mystery series are a staple of the British entertainment industry, so much so at you might be forgiven for wondering if every English citizen just happens to be a part-time crime solver on the side. Because if you go by what you see on the screen in these series, pretty
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ITV/BritBox’s The Tower, and its second season, entitled The Tower: Death Message, is adapted by Patrick Harbinson from the first two books of Kate London’s Metropolitan Police Trilogy, Post Mortem and Death Message. Directed by Faye Gilbert, The Tower is a woman-led, densely plotted urban police procedural,
Sherwood
Sherwood Season 1 was one of the BBC’s biggest surprise hits of 2022. James Graham’s story, based on the real-life 2004 double manhunt in Sherwood forest, was a star-studded affair with a who’s who of British A-listers in the cast. Despite being billed as a true crime
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When ITV initially announced it was commissioning a three-part feature-length episode drama based on Kate London's Metropolitan trilogy book series, it seemed the perfect marriage of author and story. London originally studied acting at Cambridge, working with the likes of Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) before hanging it up
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BritBox is going all in on going behind the scenes with British acting royalty. First, it released An Interview with Brian Cox, timed perfectly to coincide with the actor's exit from HBO's series Succession, which turned him into a 21st-century household name. Now it's